Singlewomen in the European Past, 1250-1800 / / Amy M. Froide, Judith M. Bennett.
When we think about the European past, we tend to imagine villages, towns, and cities populated by conventional families-married couples and their children. Although most people did marry and pass many of their adult years in the company of a spouse, this vision of a preindustrial Europe shaped by h...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013] ©1999 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. A Singular Past
- 2. Singlewomen in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
- 3. "It Is Not Good That [Wo] man Should Be Alone"
- 4. Single by Law and Custom
- 5. Sex and the Singlewoman
- 6. Transforming Maidens
- 7. Having Her Own Smoke
- 8. Singlewomen in Early Modern Venice
- 9. Marital Status as a Category of Difference
- 10. The Sapphic Strain
- 11. Singular Politics
- Appendix. Demographic Tables
- Contributors
- Index